Improved bottle-stopper



to the neck of thebottle, and the other end holding or strung 'through a metallic button, G.

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TO ALL vWHOM IT MAY CONCE RN:

Beit known that I, Jessen BELL ALEXANDER, of the city of-Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a. new and improved Method of Making Stoppers for Bottles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Fignre 1 represents, in perspective, a bent wire stati'.

Figure 2 represents, in perspective, a metallic disk, througl1 which the staff A is inserted.

Figure 3 represents a vertical section of the stopper, with the stati1 A and disk D in place.

Figure 4 represents,'in perspective, an external view of a complete stopper. l

Figure 5 represents, in perspective, the eye B of the stail A, with the button Gr and section of string H, before passing through the eye B, for the purpose of attaching the stopper to the neck ot' the bottle.

Figure 6 represents the same as iig. 5, but showing the button G in the act of passing through the eye B.

Figure 7 represents the same as iig. 5, but showing the button Cr as having passed through the eye B.

Figure 8 represents the same ns fig. 5, but showing the button G,`which has passed through the eye B, as drawn back by the string II, so as to c atch transversely upon the rim of the eye B. w y

Similar letters of reference denote like parts, where they occur in the several gures.

The nature of myinvention consists in an improvement upon a patent granted to me for stopper-s for bottles, jugs, kc., dated June 18, 1867, and numbered 65,857, these Stoppers being particularly designed for the purpose of bottling soda.and'other gaseous waters or liquids, by means of machinery, and so constructed and arranged that, when the stopper is discharged from the mouth of the bottle, it will still remain attached to the neck ofthe bottle= and thus return with the bottleto the bottler, to be used again many times; also, as a meansof more perfectly preventing the gases from escaping from the highly-charged liquids contained in the bottles.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describeits construction and operation. v

I bend a piece of wire, of suitable length, double, soja-s to form the eye B, as seen in Iig. 1 and other figures. I then make a metallic disk, D, with the perforation E, as seen in iig. 2, through which is inserted the double stall` A. The disk D is then pushed up until it rests firmly against the eye B. The two ends ofthe statIA are then turned, like hooks, in opposite directions, as seen at C, iig. 1. lThis stal` so arranged, is then covered from the disk D to a suitable distance below the hooks C, (see iig. 3,) with a strip of thin sheet India rubber, (in the sticky and unvulcanized state,) by the process of rolling, or any other suitable manner, until a suilcient bulk is given. The article, in this condition, is then placed within proper-shaped moulds, which moulds, thus charged, are placediinto the vulcanizing-heater, where, u'ndor a proper degree of' heat, the rubber becomes vulcanized, and swells in such a manner as to exactly iill the mould or matrix, thus forming the stopper into proper shape, and consolidating the rubber into a firm but highly-elastic body.

By this means the staff A is solidly vulcanized into the body F of the stopper, the disk D irmly-xed at the top, as a bearing for the ond of the bottling-plunger, and the hooks C so embedded as to prevent the turning or twisting of the staff A. The stopper, thus prepared, is ready to be passed through the bottling-machin e.

To prevent these Stoppers from becoming lost, I attach them to the neck oi the bottle after the bottle is stopped and leaves the machine, by means of a string of twine or other suitable substance, one end being attached To attach the stopper to the bottle, the button'G (which I make oval-shaped, with a hole in the centre, through whichpasses the string 11,) is pushed long ways through the eye B, and, when fully through, the string H is jerked back, and the button G,.assuming a transverse attitude, cannot escape, unless passed back -again longitudinally through the eye B. Y

Thus is formed a 'quick and simple mode ot attaching and dctaching these s toppers, as will be seen in figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is#- 1. The combination of the staffA and disk D with the rubber body F, when united by the process of vuiczmization, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. I also claim, in combination with the above, the device composed of the button G and the string Il, for attaching the stopper to the neck of the bottle, substantially ns described, and for the purpose set forth.

J'. B. ALEXANDER. 4

Witnesses:

EDWARD SEYMOUR, A. .Linus FALLS. 

